Cheat Sheet – Week 4, Input Data into R
Function Example
edit() df<-edit(df)
df<-read.table(text=file)
read.table() df<-read.table(“file.csv”)
df<-read.table(“URL”)
df<-read.delim(“file.txt”)
read.delim
df<-read.delim(“URL”)
df<-read.csv(“file.csv”)
read.csv
df<-read.csv(“URL”)
source() source(“file.r”)
readLines() df<-readLines(“file.txt”)
read_excel() df<-read_excel(file.xlsx“)
df<-readHTMLTable(
readHTMLTable()
rawToChar(urldata$content))
pdf_text() vector<-pdf_text(“url”)
df = a data frame.
Common delimiters (sep =): spaces (“”), commas (“,”), tabs (“\t”)
Note: Remember that most functions that create a data frame, they coerce characters into factors. Pass stringsAsFactor=FALSE to avoid that behavior.
Options (parameters) Description
It invokes a text editor to enter data manually. A empty data frame needs to be
created first, then edit() needs to be invoked.
fix(df), it adds more elements into the data frame
edit() needs to be assigned to a data frame, otherwise the data will be erased
once the editor is closed.
header = TRUE, then the first row will be treated as the column
names.
sep = ““ white space is the default separator. It reads delimited text file in table formant and saves it as a data frame.
text=file, text is the default format of file.
URL is a web address.
header = TRUE is the default
sep = “\t“ tab is the default separator. Another method to import data from a delimited text file. I tis a special case of
row.names = “variable_name” to select a specific index for each row. read.table()
URL is a web address.
header = TRUE is the default
sep = “,“ comma is the default separator.
It can read both csv (comma-separated values) in both txt and csv files.
row.names = “variable_name” to select a specific index for each row.
URL is a web address.
It processes commands from a script file
n=p, pass p as the number of lines to read It reads unstructured text, line by line.
Characters are not coerced to factors.
Sheet=“Sheetn”, where n is number of sheet to be read.
This function comes in readxl package. This package works with both .xls and
skip=n, where n is the number of lines to be skipped.
.xlsx formats
range=“An:Dm”, it specifies the range of data to be read, e.g.,
“A1:D5”
url<-”http://www.webaddress.com”, it stores the website address This function provides methods for extracting data from HTML tables in a HTML
urldata<-GET(url), it captures the data from website. document.
which = n, it selects specific table XML and httr packages are needed.
This function provides methods for extracting data from PDF files. It imports the
url is the web address. raw text in a character vector with spaces to show the white space and \n to
It is possible to use the name of the file (e.g.,“file.pdf”) to import the show line breaks.
data. pdftools package is needed.
it returns a vector, each element of the vector contains each page of the pdf file.
©2020, Dr. Raul Fernandez-Rojas, University of Canberra